To purists, this is not chocolate because it is made only from the fat or butter of the cacao…

85g natural colour glacé cherry, roughly chopped

Method

Heat oven to 190C/fan 170C/gas 5. Beat the butter, sugars and egg until smooth, then mix in the flour, chocolates and cherry pieces and ½ tsp salt. Spoon onto non-stick baking sheets in large rough blobs – you’ll get 20 out of this mix. Make sure they are well spaced as the cookies grow substantially as they bake. The raw dough can be frozen.

Bake for 12-14 mins until just golden, but still quite pale and soft in the middle. If baking from frozen, give them a few mins more. Cool on the sheets for 5 mins, then lift onto racks with a fish slice and leave to cool completely.

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Comments, questions and tips

These were very nice, the recipe was excelent as a basic cookie recipe, white chocolate with cherry is a lovely combrination, I also added a little vanilla essence and will be trying new combinations soon. The yield was just over 20 decent sozed cookies (ignoring the fact that I tasted the amazing mixture before baking). Cranberries would be a good substitution for cherries as they would have a slightly stonger flavour. Also, the cooking time is twice as long as necessary as I found it only took 7-8 minutes for golden brown biscuits!

Foodcrazy290

19th Mar, 2017

3.8

Made these for a tea party - couldn't find any non coloured cherries, so I used coloured and it was fine ! Delicious and went down a treat with children.

Bee96luv

20th Jan, 2017

2.55

These were quite easy to make. Quite Tasty but, the only thing I can mention is the timing in the oven myn was quite hot so didn't need to go in as long. So caution with the timing. This is a good recipe to make with children.

mulcrone01

12th Nov, 2016

5.05

Excellent cookie recipe! A family favourite using cranberries as cherries and white chocolate. A good freezer standby too!

jessica83509

23rd Jul, 2016

5.05

Amazing recipe! They turned out perfect! I didn't add cherries. Instead I did 100g milk chocolate chips and almost 100g of white chocolate chips (a handful ended up getting eaten by myself whilst beating the mix). Will definitely bake again :)

Barrybarfly

17th Feb, 2016

One star. Too tasty. They dont last long and are making me fat! lol
I make these with chocolate and hazelnuts and they are absolutely fantastic. Much nicer that ones you can buy. Really easy as well.

catstring

10th Dec, 2015

3.8

Light, crispy and chewy cookies! I added dried cranberries and smarties which worked well. I this is a versatile basic cookie recipe if you want to play around with different additions.

silviak

16th Jun, 2015

I made these cookies for my 3-year-old son, so wanted to add some 'feel good' things in them. So I rate them 5 stars, but based on my adaptations on the basic recipe:
150 g butter
50 g peanut butter
125 g self-raising flour
50 g ground oats
50 g ground almond
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
100 g milk chocolate, chopped
The remaining ingredients were the same, but baking time (fan oven) was much shorter than recommended, around 9 minutes with brown edges and not a gooey center.
Still, highly recommend them, easy and delicious.

anjistar

26th Feb, 2015

These work well also with 100g porridge oats (leave out 100g flour), toasted hazelnuts, raisins, cinnamon and fudge pieces, instead of the chocolate and cherries. They only needed 7 minutes cooking in my fan oven. Lovely and chewy.

rhapsodyinc

1st Nov, 2014

When I made these they tasted good but came out like flat cakes. I have no idea where I went wrong. Any suggestions?

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You might be tempted to roll out the cookies before going in the oven for a perfect shape- I did this and don't ! They spread well in the oven and mine came out a bit stuck together because they ended up being so large.

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